Software Delivery Contracts in Scotland

Software Delivery
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Software Delivery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Delivery over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 129 136
Rank change year-on-year +28 +7 -24
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 32 35 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.44% 1.23% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.32% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 29
10th Percentile £414 £376 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +1.39% +5.88%
75th Percentile £520 £523 £469
90th Percentile £573 £566 £525
UK median daily rate £575 £573 £582
% change year-on-year +0.44% -1.67% +12.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software Delivery is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,966 2,642 3,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.56% 92.60% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,899 2,324
10th Percentile £232 £263 £241
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 56 50
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.58
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Delivery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +24 15 £450 -2.70% 3
South Lanarkshire - 13 - - 1
Glasgow +1 3 £588 +48.26% 2
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (43.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
1 9 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (21.88%) Amazon S3
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (21.88%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (21.88%) Serverless
3 5 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (6.25%) IaaS
6 2 (6.25%) PaaS
6 2 (6.25%) SaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (3.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (9.38%) InfluxDB
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 16 (50.00%) JIRA
2 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 4 (12.50%) GitLab
4 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 2 (6.25%) Git
4 2 (6.25%) Selenium
4 2 (6.25%) Subversion
4 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (84.38%) Public Sector
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Senior
2 13 (40.63%) Delivery Manager
2 13 (40.63%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 13 (40.63%) Senior Manager
3 5 (15.63%) Project Manager
4 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Agile Project Manager
5 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Designer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) AWS CDK
2 3 (9.38%) Node.js
2 3 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (9.38%) React
3 2 (6.25%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) CSS
3 2 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Client/Server
1 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
1 5 (15.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (15.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) Agile
2 20 (62.50%) Project Management
3 17 (53.13%) Scrum
4 13 (40.63%) DevOps
4 13 (40.63%) PRINCE2
5 7 (21.88%) Change Control
5 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) Dependency Management
5 7 (21.88%) Project Delivery
5 7 (21.88%) Risk Management
5 7 (21.88%) Supplier Management
5 7 (21.88%) User Research
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (15.63%) TDD
6 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
7 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 4 (12.50%) Kanban
8 3 (9.38%) Human-Centred Design
8 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
8 3 (9.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) Bash
1 5 (15.63%) Python
2 3 (9.38%) Groovy
2 3 (9.38%) Java
2 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
2 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
3 2 (6.25%) C#
3 2 (6.25%) C++
3 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.25%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) VBA
3 2 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) SC Cleared
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.25%) ISEB
2 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
2 2 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) Accessibility
1 3 (9.38%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Ansible
1 4 (12.50%) Grafana
1 4 (12.50%) Kibana
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform